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AJ-6197 Senior Recently added

Rust Backend Developer

Bulgaria
5 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Developed asynchronous Rust and Tokio services for Solana MEV trading, including arbitrage, liquidation, Jito submission, and bundle lifecycle tracking. Also isolated transaction signing and key-generation workflows behind a dedicated Rust API for custody-sensitive operations.

  • Built matching and pre-trade risk components
  • Used ClickHouse for market-data workloads
  • Implemented Kafka and NATS messaging
  • Profiled p95 and p99 latency
RustGoTokioSerdetracingAnchor
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AB-4745 Staff Recently added

Rust Engineer

Croatia
8 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Designed a stable ABI for cross-language Rust interoperability, including an intermediate representation, generated type conversions, validity checks, opaque types, generics, custom DSTs, and runtime tagged dispatch. Added WebAssembly smart-contract execution to Hyperledger Iroha and corrected consensus, fault-handling, and peer-synchronization defects.

  • Unsafe Rust and memory-layout engineering
  • Procedural macro and code-generation tooling
  • cbindgen associated-type resolution
  • Concurrent Java ETL and stream replication
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#HIRED Lead Recently hired

Senior Rust Engineer

Sweden
10 years
Hybrid
Employee
Experienced software engineer with strong background in distributed systems and cloud-native architecture. Proven track record delivering production systems at scale. Skilled in designing fault-tolerant services, optimising CI/CD pipelines, and mentoring junior developers across cross-functional teams.
  • Led migration of monolithic system to microservices architecture
  • Built high-throughput data pipeline processing 1M+ events per second
  • Designed and implemented real-time monitoring and alerting platform
RustActixPostgreSQLDockerAWSRedisKafkaKubernetes
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EU-4988 Senior

CTO & Founding Engineer (Rust)

United States
7 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Architected Rust event-driven services on AWS EKS processing more than one million concurrent interaction events across multiple production deployments. Built exactly-once pipelines across Kinesis, Lambda, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, and Redis, with sub-second delivery and automated infrastructure managed through Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD.

  • LGTM observability stack
  • Backpressure-aware event processing
  • AI recommendation infrastructure
  • GitOps deployment automation
RustGoPythonTypeScriptRubyJavaScript
Interviewing now $150k-200k/yr
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VE-8534 Lead

Senior Rust Engineer

United States
19 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Builds Rust and Bun microservices for real-time, AI-driven threat detection and security intelligence. Has designed Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS and worked across e-commerce fulfillment optimization, cloud platforms, multidimensional databases, and headless commerce.

  • API architecture and developer advocacy
  • E-commerce date-delivery optimization
  • Data migration and platform modernization
  • Security and regulatory compliance engineering
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Interviewing now $180k-230k/yr
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ET-1108 Senior

Rust Engineer & Founder

France
9 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Builds Rust backend services, compilers, domain-specific languages, and embedded-systems software. Created a Rust implementation of a custom programming language, shipped PostgreSQL-backed production APIs, and maintains open-source packages across crates.io and npm.

  • Designed REST and WebSocket interfaces
  • Optimized PostgreSQL queries and schemas
  • Built reproducible environments with NixOS
  • Won an IEEE hardware-demo award for side-channel tooling
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Interviewing now €80k-100k/yr
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VS-8130 Senior

Senior Rust Engineer

France
4 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Develops Rust systems spanning embedded control software for marine vessels and drones, backend services, and WebAssembly applications. Co-created a real-time collaborative audio workstation using Rust, WASM, and CRDTs, combining low-latency state synchronization with cross-platform interfaces.

  • ESP32 and NVIDIA Jetson embedded targets
  • CAN, Modbus, and NMEA protocol integration
  • Flight-controller software for autonomous drones
  • Substrate and Ink! smart-contract development
RustCC++GoTypeScriptTokio
Interviewing now $100k-120k/yr
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NP-3228 Principal

Principal Rust Engineer

United Kingdom
23 years
Remote
Freelancer

Works across Rust, WebAssembly, Python, TypeScript, Java, and Apache Spark. The available profile indicates a systems and data-engineering focus, but does not provide specific infrastructure scale, protocol domains, or project outcomes.

  • WebAssembly runtime development
  • Apache Spark data processing
  • Python automation tooling
  • TypeScript application development
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Interviewing now $180-255/hr
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DS-7655 Staff

Senior Backend & Systems Engineer

Sweden
10 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Designs Rust and Python distributed services around PostgreSQL, cryptographic protocols, and auditable storage. Recent work includes a protocol workspace for verifiable inter-organisation healthcare data exchange with deterministic binary formats, explicit trust boundaries, replay protection, and crash recovery.

  • Ed25519 signatures and BLAKE3 hashing
  • Append-only audit trails with fail-closed authorization
  • PostgreSQL query optimization and schema migrations
  • Healthcare interoperability using ICD-10-SE and KVÅ
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Interviewing now €75k-95k/yr
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RC-1518 Staff

Senior Blockchain Engineer

Australia
11 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Engineered a decentralized finance protocol on Ethereum, focusing on security and gas optimization. Developed smart contract frameworks for Solana, enabling efficient cross-chain transactions. Contributed to the core development of a blockchain consensus mechanism, enhancing throughput and latency.

  • Created a custom Rust-based library for cryptographic operations
  • Integrated TypeScript tooling for blockchain application interfaces
  • Designed a Solidity-based tokenomics model for a new crypto asset
  • Built a cross-platform wallet application with advanced security features
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Interviewing now $50k-80k/yr
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JJ-8790 Senior

Freelance Software Engineer

United Kingdom
10 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Builds backend systems, desktop software, API integrations, and AI automation workflows across Rust, Python, and native C++. Recent work includes payment reconciliation, operational platforms, distributed services, and document-context retrieval pipelines.

  • Maintains PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, and SQLite systems
  • Deploys infrastructure with Kubernetes and Terraform
  • Implements REST APIs and webhook integrations
  • Builds LLM agents with n8n and Make
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JE-5871 Senior

Protocol Engineer

Czech Republic
10 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Built ultra-low-latency exchange gateways, real-time pricing and risk engines, and a Byzantine fault-tolerant blockchain from scratch in C. Current protocol work includes Solana lending logic and a real-time Rust liquidator using Anchor.

  • Implemented peer-to-peer networking over WireGuard
  • Developed non-blocking concurrent systems
  • Optimized CPU-to-GPU graphics workloads
  • Worked with video codecs and OpenGL
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AN-2590 Principal

Software / Research Engineer

Germany
28 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Works on Rust asynchronous systems and modular applications while applying long-term maintainability practices to complex enterprise codebases. Current research projects combine C++, CUDA, LibTorch, and tch-rs for GPU-accelerated machine-learning and numerical workloads.

  • CUDA and GPU resource integration
  • IPC and process-level resource management
  • CMake, Cargo, Docker, and GitHub Actions
  • Incremental refactoring of large Java systems
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WT-3063 Principal

Independent Systems Research & Consulting

Spain
16 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Designed and implemented distributed systems for high-availability services using Rust and Python. Led teams in developing blockchain-based applications with a focus on smart contract security.

  • Optimized SQL databases for performance and scalability
  • Authored technical documentation for complex system architectures
  • Contributed to open-source distributed ledger projects
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ER-6619 Staff

Senior Software Engineer

Cyprus
8 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Built GPU-resident simulation infrastructure for physically based animation, open-ended multi-agent environments, and reinforcement-learning workloads. Implemented pipeline-parallel decentralized LLM inference that streams intermediate activations across machines, plus WASI-based RPC interfaces between processes and nodes.

  • CUDA miner reaching 150 proofs per second
  • Correctness-gated autoresearch profiling harness
  • llama.cpp, tinygrad, and Candle integration
  • Embedding-based decentralized recommendation indexers
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Interviewing now $150k-225k/yr
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